On A Dark Desert Highway
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teaberryblueSo, for those of you who are interested, some developments:
--All the characters in the hotel must be characters from a classic song (folk, rock, jazz, etc). Still trying to decide what date is the cutoff for "classic" but it will be at least through the 70s. So if you want to write with us, start thinking about songs that you might want to use as your character's backstory. They should be actual people from songs with a narrative and characters. I guess the best way to put it is you can choose Jojo or Prudence or Jude or even the narrator of "Yellow Submarine," but you can't write a character based on "Let it Be" or "Revolution." There are some songs I'm going to reserve to use as framing storylines, so I might have to deny some of them, but for the most part, all is good.
--The hotel's calendar is perpetually set to February 3, 1959.
--I think I have a good sense of what the framing storyline for the first story will be.
--All the characters in the hotel must be characters from a classic song (folk, rock, jazz, etc). Still trying to decide what date is the cutoff for "classic" but it will be at least through the 70s. So if you want to write with us, start thinking about songs that you might want to use as your character's backstory. They should be actual people from songs with a narrative and characters. I guess the best way to put it is you can choose Jojo or Prudence or Jude or even the narrator of "Yellow Submarine," but you can't write a character based on "Let it Be" or "Revolution." There are some songs I'm going to reserve to use as framing storylines, so I might have to deny some of them, but for the most part, all is good.
--The hotel's calendar is perpetually set to February 3, 1959.
--I think I have a good sense of what the framing storyline for the first story will be.
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Date: 2013-05-03 09:25 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2013-05-03 09:25 pm (UTC)Say someone wanted to use Tom Petty's "Mary Jane's Last Dance" (which I would consider to be pretty damn classic, despite the date, unless you are sticking to a very narrow time frame). Could that person write from the perspective of the narrator, from Mary Jane as a person - or from Mary Jane as a metaphor turned into a person? Does that make sense? I mean, in the case of this song, it seems as though one could use all three, unless you don't want that last option to apply. I wasn't sure if that last option violated the rule you used (when describing the Beatles and their songs), but I was curious. And I'm rambling because my brain is on overdrive. But I am truly curious. :)
Also, why 2/3/59? Am I missing a song/musical reference?
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Date: 2013-05-03 10:00 pm (UTC)Quick digression: After hearing about the film "Six String Samurai" (not even seeing a frame of it, oh dialup days...) I built this overly-complicated big-budget action movie version of a similar setup where a group of these sorts of characters/anthropomorphized ideas would team up with Buddy and Dio to fight Death Metal and his father the Wizard of Ozz for the fate of Lost Vegas.
Then I actually watched the movie and it was not that and I was sad. Then the video game Brütal Legend happened and was kinda a lot like that thing I thought up even though I didn't have fun with it.
/digression
Anyway, I know I already did a thing with him once but if Major Tom is open, I so call dibs.
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Date: 2013-05-04 01:35 am (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2013-05-04 01:40 am (UTC)I can't think of any songs ever recorded with people in them OMGHang on.. forwarding this post and the last one to my roommate.. because she's
oldersmarter than me when it comes to music!people. LOLEDIT: I have mostly narrowed it down to Venus. Because there's too much Oz in my head to not influence my take on the Wizard of.. <3
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Date: 2013-05-05 04:56 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2013-05-06 06:05 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2013-05-06 07:42 pm (UTC)One problem:
"We haven't seen that spirit here since 1969."
So... the hotel is non-chron? A TARDIS?
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Date: 2013-05-06 07:57 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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